It wouldnt prove anything of the sort, it would simply prove that its possible to run a different browser as an application - IE would still be there in the mshtml.dll file, which is also used for Explorer and a crapload of other stuff. You think that because the front end wrapper would be replaced with Opera, the rest would magically disappear in a puff of invertant logic? IE *is* part of the OS, because its based on OS provided APIs, not hte other way round.
How is the GPL going to force me to open up the sourcecode when the law backing it no longer exists? The GPL does exist as a means to 'protect the ethical right to share information' (not that I agree that sourcecode is information) but not jsut the binaries but the sourcecode as well. Under the OP scenario, copyright no longer exists as a force to make me open my sourcecode up under the terms of the GPL.
Most of the writers left when the show was cancelled and committed to other projects. When the show was given the green light for another season, they couldnt recommit and thus the later seasons of the show were done with a different writer pool.
napster got in trouble because they kept the master file list on their own servers- and then couldn't filter out content the riaa & others wanted blocked.
Suprnova contained links to torrents (cant remember if it held the.torrent files itself, pretty sure it did). That in my mind is a direct corollation to the Napster master file list.
The 'other' sites are violating copyright as the lyrics are copyrighted just as much as any other part of the song. Unlicensed sites distributing copies of said lyrics would be well open to being sued because theres little arguement that their operation could be made under fair use.
While the music industry shouldnt gouge its customers for every last cent possible, why is there a sense of entitlement on the part of some slashdotters to everything that isnt bolted to the floor?
I found myself unoccupied at 7pm the other day, and so I switched to Discovery Wings. What was on? Worlds Best Cars. What. The. FUCK? Three episodes of that, one ancient 'Flying through Time' episode and then its all repeated. Absolutely pointless for an aviation enthusiasts channel.
I wonder what these courts would do if Microsoft was to actually produce a version of Windows that contained absolutely no 'bundled' software that had a competitor in the market. Imagine a version of Windows with no notepad, wordpad, IE, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, screensaver, network browser, task manager, disk defragmenter, TCP stack, Instant Messenger, backup tool, cd player, email client, remote desktop, scripting tool, command prompt or shell.
Imagine an OEM having to supply alternatives to all of these things. Buying the replacements from third parties, or including crippled versions of full products, or using opensource alternatives where they exist. Imagine every OEM doing this, and choosing different products. Imagine sitting down infront of a computer and no longer having a guaranteed set of tools to work with - different browser, email client, file explorer etc.
Im not actually sure I like this but where does bundling end? Consumers expect a certain minimum level of capability in a computer these days, but what is acceptable and what isn't?
Eolas dont even own the patent, its licensed from the actual patent owners - the University of California and thus you cannot say what will happen in the future. Microsoft and several other interested parties showed that the technology involved was invented prior to the patents validity, but the judge ruled for unknown reasons that the patent was valid regardless. If this wasnt against Microsoft, how many posters on slashdot would currently be decrying the validity of the patent?
Uhm, no they didnt. I watched most of Season 1 and 2 in the same slots, mid week early evening, and the rest in either midweek mid evening or sunday mid evening (9pm ish) slots. Being the young nerd i was then, I only missed one single episode, and I didnt watch any 'late night'.
Actually the GPL only requires that the source be made available to those you distribute the binaries to (or in one case, whoever has your written offer of source code). Theres no requirement to make the source publicly available. And this is how it should stay, why should someone have to put up with the expenditure of thousands upon thousands of people downloading the source from them when they only distributed the binaries to one person and gave them the source at the same time?
So to punish Ellison for devaluing Oracle share prices unfairly through insider trading, thus causing financial loss for Oracle share holders, you suggest financing an Oracle competitor. Where would the justice be for the people hurt in this, the Oracle share holders?!
This was the first pass over the region, and the data that is causing this news is from that single pass. Its probable that the other instruments were doing something else at the time, and the radar was being used to map the region. Since the data isnt coming back in real time, the only thing you can do is plan a second pass when the orbit allows it, this time with the instruments focused on the area of interest.
To be honest, I havent ever had a problem with the iTunesMS DRM. iTunes itself doesnt add DRM to CD rips, I was fully aware of the limitations of the files I bought from iTunesMS and it has never ever been a problem, so what makes you think anything they add to a DVR would be any different? Or am I just supposed to nod and agree that DRM is bad bad bad, naughty Apple etc etc?
Or the more likely scenario, since this only seems to be affecting a minority percentage of Xbox360 owners, is that they QA tested the power brick perfectly fine, and then the supplier shipped a bad batch that didnt conform to the QA level. It happens, its bad PR when it does, but it happens. Maybe the entire batch wasnt affected and thats why it wasnt picked up in random sample testing, after all you cant test 100% of your production run in all environments exhaustivly.
And if the report had stayed the same, would you have accused the UN of dancing to the tune of the EFF, who were on the same board Microsoft was? Dont try and twist this, the UN is made up of influential people and companies that matter and they all push their own agenda.
There is a law in the US that makes it illegal to travel to foreign countries for the purposes of paying to have sex or a sex act with what would be termed a 'minor' in the US (either 16 or 18 dependant on the act involved). U.S. Code, Title 18, Chapter 117, SubSection 2423 should sort you out on this one. Most western countries have similiar laws. Also the PROTECT Act of April 2003 outlaws similiar actions.
A lot of women frown on the negative connotations that go with that sort of thing, so unless they have hookers on the payrole I would find it very doubtful that a woman would agree to doing something like that, especially if they are getting paid as it puts them right down there if their general social group finds out.
This sounds very much like the SCO claims imho. The strings and array construct names involved seem so generic that they can be present for a number of reasons, including as you pointed out, a ripper detection system. They probably also lifted the following: if, else, while, main, int, char and a few others.
So the industry should just give up? The moment that happens is the moment they stop selling anything at all, and then what will people pirate? You can say all you want about the RIAA and MPAA not putting out anything worth listening to or watching, but that very same stuff seems to be incredibly popular on the filesharing networks, so someone seems to be enjoying it.
Opensource software is popular because its so widespread, and thats because it has such a low cost of entry for a programmer. Vi, a compiler (or interpreter) and you are set to go, been the same since BASIC was bundled with a computer (my earliest experience was teh C64).
Unfortunately, the same cant be said for music or movies - the cost of entry is a lot higher, and a lot less people have the talent to pull it off. I hold the people who can play musical instruments or sing or act in high regard, they are doing something I could never do.
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My employer has 130 employees and has around 300 customers. We are also highly profitable and pay good wages. A low ratio isnt always a bad thing.
It wouldnt prove anything of the sort, it would simply prove that its possible to run a different browser as an application - IE would still be there in the mshtml.dll file, which is also used for Explorer and a crapload of other stuff. You think that because the front end wrapper would be replaced with Opera, the rest would magically disappear in a puff of invertant logic? IE *is* part of the OS, because its based on OS provided APIs, not hte other way round.
How is the GPL going to force me to open up the sourcecode when the law backing it no longer exists? The GPL does exist as a means to 'protect the ethical right to share information' (not that I agree that sourcecode is information) but not jsut the binaries but the sourcecode as well. Under the OP scenario, copyright no longer exists as a force to make me open my sourcecode up under the terms of the GPL.
Thats 0.04% of the UK population (56million). Is doing a lot of work specifically for this minority actually going to pay off?
They have freedom of speech, what they dont have is freedom from consequence. Learn responsability, its a great thing.
Most of the writers left when the show was cancelled and committed to other projects. When the show was given the green light for another season, they couldnt recommit and thus the later seasons of the show were done with a different writer pool.
napster got in trouble because they kept the master file list on their own servers- and then couldn't filter out content the riaa & others wanted blocked.
Suprnova contained links to torrents (cant remember if it held the .torrent files itself, pretty sure it did). That in my mind is a direct corollation to the Napster master file list.
The RSS standard is meant to be extendable, the creators realised it wouldnt cover all circumstances and situations. Get over it.
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The 'other' sites are violating copyright as the lyrics are copyrighted just as much as any other part of the song. Unlicensed sites distributing copies of said lyrics would be well open to being sued because theres little arguement that their operation could be made under fair use.
While the music industry shouldnt gouge its customers for every last cent possible, why is there a sense of entitlement on the part of some slashdotters to everything that isnt bolted to the floor?
I found myself unoccupied at 7pm the other day, and so I switched to Discovery Wings. What was on? Worlds Best Cars. What. The. FUCK? Three episodes of that, one ancient 'Flying through Time' episode and then its all repeated. Absolutely pointless for an aviation enthusiasts channel.
I wonder what these courts would do if Microsoft was to actually produce a version of Windows that contained absolutely no 'bundled' software that had a competitor in the market. Imagine a version of Windows with no notepad, wordpad, IE, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, screensaver, network browser, task manager, disk defragmenter, TCP stack, Instant Messenger, backup tool, cd player, email client, remote desktop, scripting tool, command prompt or shell.
Imagine an OEM having to supply alternatives to all of these things. Buying the replacements from third parties, or including crippled versions of full products, or using opensource alternatives where they exist. Imagine every OEM doing this, and choosing different products. Imagine sitting down infront of a computer and no longer having a guaranteed set of tools to work with - different browser, email client, file explorer etc.
Im not actually sure I like this but where does bundling end? Consumers expect a certain minimum level of capability in a computer these days, but what is acceptable and what isn't?
Eolas dont even own the patent, its licensed from the actual patent owners - the University of California and thus you cannot say what will happen in the future. Microsoft and several other interested parties showed that the technology involved was invented prior to the patents validity, but the judge ruled for unknown reasons that the patent was valid regardless. If this wasnt against Microsoft, how many posters on slashdot would currently be decrying the validity of the patent?
Uhm, no they didnt. I watched most of Season 1 and 2 in the same slots, mid week early evening, and the rest in either midweek mid evening or sunday mid evening (9pm ish) slots. Being the young nerd i was then, I only missed one single episode, and I didnt watch any 'late night'.
Actually the GPL only requires that the source be made available to those you distribute the binaries to (or in one case, whoever has your written offer of source code). Theres no requirement to make the source publicly available. And this is how it should stay, why should someone have to put up with the expenditure of thousands upon thousands of people downloading the source from them when they only distributed the binaries to one person and gave them the source at the same time?
So to punish Ellison for devaluing Oracle share prices unfairly through insider trading, thus causing financial loss for Oracle share holders, you suggest financing an Oracle competitor. Where would the justice be for the people hurt in this, the Oracle share holders?!
This was the first pass over the region, and the data that is causing this news is from that single pass. Its probable that the other instruments were doing something else at the time, and the radar was being used to map the region. Since the data isnt coming back in real time, the only thing you can do is plan a second pass when the orbit allows it, this time with the instruments focused on the area of interest.
He also wrote a prequel to the trilogy, again its worth a read.
To be honest, I havent ever had a problem with the iTunesMS DRM. iTunes itself doesnt add DRM to CD rips, I was fully aware of the limitations of the files I bought from iTunesMS and it has never ever been a problem, so what makes you think anything they add to a DVR would be any different? Or am I just supposed to nod and agree that DRM is bad bad bad, naughty Apple etc etc?
Or the more likely scenario, since this only seems to be affecting a minority percentage of Xbox360 owners, is that they QA tested the power brick perfectly fine, and then the supplier shipped a bad batch that didnt conform to the QA level. It happens, its bad PR when it does, but it happens. Maybe the entire batch wasnt affected and thats why it wasnt picked up in random sample testing, after all you cant test 100% of your production run in all environments exhaustivly.
And if the report had stayed the same, would you have accused the UN of dancing to the tune of the EFF, who were on the same board Microsoft was? Dont try and twist this, the UN is made up of influential people and companies that matter and they all push their own agenda.
There is a law in the US that makes it illegal to travel to foreign countries for the purposes of paying to have sex or a sex act with what would be termed a 'minor' in the US (either 16 or 18 dependant on the act involved). U.S. Code, Title 18, Chapter 117, SubSection 2423 should sort you out on this one. Most western countries have similiar laws. Also the PROTECT Act of April 2003 outlaws similiar actions.
A lot of women frown on the negative connotations that go with that sort of thing, so unless they have hookers on the payrole I would find it very doubtful that a woman would agree to doing something like that, especially if they are getting paid as it puts them right down there if their general social group finds out.
This sounds very much like the SCO claims imho. The strings and array construct names involved seem so generic that they can be present for a number of reasons, including as you pointed out, a ripper detection system. They probably also lifted the following: if, else, while, main, int, char and a few others.
One year in the UK, with manufacturing defects protected for 7 years after purchase. How do you guys put up with 60 day warranties?
So the industry should just give up? The moment that happens is the moment they stop selling anything at all, and then what will people pirate? You can say all you want about the RIAA and MPAA not putting out anything worth listening to or watching, but that very same stuff seems to be incredibly popular on the filesharing networks, so someone seems to be enjoying it.
Opensource software is popular because its so widespread, and thats because it has such a low cost of entry for a programmer. Vi, a compiler (or interpreter) and you are set to go, been the same since BASIC was bundled with a computer (my earliest experience was teh C64).
Unfortunately, the same cant be said for music or movies - the cost of entry is a lot higher, and a lot less people have the talent to pull it off. I hold the people who can play musical instruments or sing or act in high regard, they are doing something I could never do.